Hi birders
Because I've seen very few trip reports on this list over the years from
alpine areas (or subalpine!), I feel obliged to submit a brief report
from a brief visit.
This time to Mount Buller on the very western edge of what can be
considered alpine/subalpine in Victoria - just up the hill from
Mansfield. I spent a couple of days stumbling about on a south facing
hillside below the peak of Buller - mostly on ski runs with remnant
herbfield, heath and blockstream habitats - bordered by relatively
intact subalpine woodland, heath and blockstream. All at or about
1,600m altitude.
Remarkably quiet most of the time, but with occasional Pilotbird
serenades, and these species (below) being relatively prominent.
Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans
Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae
White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaeus
Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus
Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
Striated Thornbill Acanthiza lineata
Yellow-faced Honeyeater Lichenostomus chrysops
White-eared Honeyeater Lichenostomus leucotis
White-naped Honeyeater Melithreptus lunatus
Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris
Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea
Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica
Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
Pied Currawong Strepera graculina
Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor
Little Raven Corvus mellori
Australian Pipit Anthus australis
Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
*Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Common Wombat Vombatus ursinus
*Fox Vulpes vulpes
*Brown Hare Lepus capensis
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Lawrie Conole
Senior Ecologist
Ornithology & Terrestrial Ecology
Ecology Australia Pty. Ltd.
Flora and Fauna Consultants
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FAIRFIELD VIC 3078 Australia
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